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White House Expected to Ease Sanctions Targeting Syria
Saturday, 2 November 2013, 3:14 pm | Franklin Lamb
Additional easing of Syrian sanctions is expected by mid-November according to staff at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Asset Control (OFAC). More >>
Peres suffering from Portnoy’s Complaint?
Thursday, 24 October 2013, 4:54 pm | Franklin Lamb
Being subjected to the Zionist lobby can get tedious—particularly its chronic parading of an often disoriented and fast-deteriorating fellow, who should surely be tending a vegetable or flower garden somewhere in Occupied Palestine, where he lives on stolen ... More >>
François Hollande’s Missteps put France on Levant sidelines
Monday, 14 October 2013, 3:36 pm | Franklin Lamb
In modern times, France has done far better diplomatically when it has advocated against impetuous military involvement in the internal affairs of other countries. French standing in international politics has been highest when its government was ... More >>
Four Decades after the Tishrin: War Self-Delusion
Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 5:08 pm | Franklin Lamb
Is Damascus this weekend and many other areas of Syria, citizens will celebrate the accomplishments of the October 6, 1973 19 day war launched jointly by Syrian and Egyptian armies to regain Arab land illegally occupied in 1967. More >>
Passing the Torch to a New Generation of Syrians
Sunday, 29 September 2013, 11:13 am | Franklin Lamb
Few, one imagines, in the Syrian Arab Republic these days question the urgency and enormity of the task of reconstruction of their ancient country from war inflicted destruction caused by a carnage more than half as long as WWI. More >>
Passing the Torch to a New Generation of Syrians
Saturday, 28 September 2013, 2:19 pm | Franklin Lamb
Few, one imagines, in the Syrian Arab Republic these days question the urgency and enormity of the task of reconstruction of their ancient country from war inflicted destruction caused by a carnage already more than half as long as World War I and ... More >>
American Bombing Still Likely
Saturday, 14 September 2013, 2:02 pm | Franklin Lamb
At the height of the war scare here in early September, a group 9 primarily Sunni, Christian, and Alawite students and activists, led by a charismatic and agnostic pro-Hezbollah Lebanese Shia woman from Hermel in Lebanon’s North Bekaa Valley, ... More >>
US Soldiers or Human Shields—Who Will Arrive First in Syria?
Thursday, 12 September 2013, 12:07 pm | Franklin Lamb
A sort of roller coaster atmosphere pervades Damascus these days, with both “good” and “bad” news rippling through the airwaves every quarter hour or so. Much of the population monitors it all closely. People listen; they read; they discuss their ... More >>
Late night ‘town meetings’ common before the American attac
Saturday, 7 September 2013, 1:30 pm | Franklin Lamb
This observer judges that the Persians, whose bright, articulate students are well known internationally, and with whom he has been honored to discuss international politics on several occasions, may well have met their intellectual match with the ... More >>
Which Americans will arrive first to Syria?
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 12:27 pm | Franklin Lamb
A sort of roller coaster atmosphere pervades Damascus these days with “good” and “bad” news rising and falling, often by the quarter hour. Much of the population is monitoring closely the news and quickly expressing their interpretations of the ... More >>
Syria & America exchange messages as both peoples breathe
Tuesday, 3 September 2013, 9:53 am | Franklin Lamb
The morning following President Obama’s announcement he would not bomb Syria immediately, the streets of Damascus were packed with shoppers and employees heading to their jobs. Several reasons for this were mentioned by my friend, Eyman. More >>
Countdown to Apocalypse Now? A View from Tehran
Monday, 2 September 2013, 10:36 am | Franklin Lamb
Truth told, it’s a bit intense these days in Tehran as in most other countries in this region, and this observer fairly soon may be on what just might be the last Tehran-Damascus flight for some time in light of what could occur in the coming days. More >>
A View From Tehran
Saturday, 31 August 2013, 2:43 pm | Franklin Lamb
Truth told, it’s a bit intense these days in Tehran as in most other countries in this region, and this observer fairly soon may be on what just might be the last Tehran-Damascus flight for some time in light of what could occur in the coming days. More >>
Zionists and Saudis maneuvering Obama into war with Syria
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 4:00 pm | Franklin Lamb
The Bandar-Zionist lobby collaboration, currently the cocktail party talk of many in Washington, is not a case of strange bedfellows given three decades of mutual cooperation which started during Prince Bandar’s long tenure as Saudi ambassador ... More >>
Fear Spreads through Palestinian Camps in Syria
Saturday, 24 August 2013, 11:30 am | Franklin Lamb
Among those who have fled Syria from the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus are close to 50,000 children. This is the figure cited by the Palestinian Popular Committees in the Damascus-Homs area as well as Anthony Lake, head of the U.N. children’s ... More >>
Lebanon Turns Its Back On Palestinians Fleeing Syria War
Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 4:24 pm | Franklin Lamb
Lebanon Offers Palestinians Fleeing Death In Syria Ramadan Greetings: “Eid Mubarak, Dear Brothers and Sisters! Yalla! Go Back Where You Came From!” More >>
What happened to the Palestinian refugees at Masnaa?
Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 10:09 am | Franklin Lamb
On 8/5/13 this observer decided, quite on the spur of the moment, to take a three day break from Damascus the next morning and make a quick trip to Beirut to do some errands because offices would be closed starting at dawn for Eid al Fitr celebrations ... More >>
Syria’s Palestinian camps controlled by Salafi-Jihadists
Monday, 12 August 2013, 11:35 am | Franklin Lamb
Jihadists are entering Syria at an accelerating pace, according to Syrian, UNWRA, and Palestinian officials as well as residents in the refugee camps here. For the now-estimated 7000 imported foreign fighters, Palestinian camps are seen as optimal ... More >>
Vows of ‘Occupation Until Martyrdom’
Saturday, 10 August 2013, 12:54 pm | Franklin Lamb
Jihadists are entering Syria at an accelerating pace, according to Syrian, UNWRA, and Palestinian officials as well as residents in the refugee camps here. For the now-estimated 7000 imported foreign fighters, Palestinian camps are seen as optimal ... More >>
A Formula for Palestinian Survival in Damascus
Saturday, 3 August 2013, 2:16 pm | Franklin Lamb
For more than a year, Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, one of nine in Syria, has been a war zone between supporters of the Syrian government and those seeking its overthrow. But the number of camp residents actively engaged in fighting on either ... More >>
